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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?
(a) A big blanket.
(b) A buffalo skull.
(c) A peace pipe.
(d) A bowl of stew.

2. According to Lame Deer, what was the name of the greatest of all the Sioux?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Wild Horse.
(d) Crazy Bull.

3. In the tale of the Stone Boy, when Stone Boy goes out to find his uncles he starts out in the morning and in the evening he smells what?
(a) Crisp running water.
(b) Buffalo breath.
(c) Sweet rose petals.
(d) Smoke.

4. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?
(a) Over three hundred.
(b) Over three hundred and fifty.
(c) Over two hundred and fifty.
(d) Over two hundred.

5. What was the name for men who dressed like women?
(a) Montmack.
(b) Winktes.
(c) Tanka.
(d) Symbife.

6. In the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer states that the first thing the white man usually asks about is what?
(a) Buffalo skins.
(b) The peace pipe.
(c) Peyote.
(d) Green frog skin.

7. In the book, Lame Deer talks about horses in a rodeo and how the riders knew how the horses were going to buck. He says that it's not like riding a horse any more, it's like driving what?
(a) A milk truck.
(b) A old mare.
(c) A garbage truck.
(d) A bike.

8. Lame Deer talks about a famous chief that was named Man-Afraid-of-His-what?
(a) Arrow.
(b) Horse.
(c) Knife.
(d) Cow.

9. Lame Deer told a reporter that he would like to plant a staff on the very top of Mount Rushmore to make it a sacred mountain again. What colors would be on the staff?
(a) Red and yellow.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Black and green.
(d) Black and red.

10. Lame Deer talks about the white man being afraid of natural odors and declares that soon the white man will breed people without what?
(a) Feet.
(b) Body openings.
(c) Pores.
(d) Underarms.

11. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Good Fox.
(b) Flying By.
(c) Planter of Water.
(d) Did Not Butcher.

12. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?
(a) Witch doctor.
(b) Holy man.
(c) Conjurer.
(d) Medicine man.

13. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

14. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

15. What does Lame Deer say is the main thing in marriage?
(a) Children.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Love.
(d) Comfort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state did the Sioux church members have to get their peyote from?

2. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?

3. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?

4. What did the rectangles represent that had one line missing that are found on the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made?

5. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?

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